Biography

Dr. Lihua You is a Professor at the National Center for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK. He received his BSc degree from Yanshan University, MSc degree and PhD degree from Chongqing University, China, and another PhD degree from Bournemouth University, UK.

Before joining Bournemouth University, UK, he was a lecturer (1983-1987, 1990-1992), an associate professor (1992-1995, 1996-1997), and a professor (1997-1998) of Chongqing University, China. He was an academic visiting scholar at Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, UK from 1995 to 1996.

He is a member of Peer Review College of EPSRC, UK and the Program Committee of many international conferences, an editor of 4 international journals, and a reviewer for EPSRC and 36 international journals and a lot of international conferences. He is also an external PhD thesis examiner for some UK universities.

Prof You has lectured a number of topics to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervised some MSc and PhD research students... Currently, he is involved in the lecturing, marking, and project supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students, and PhD student supervision. The students who wish to peruse their PhD research in computer animation, geometric modelling, and computer graphics are welcome to contact him.

Research

Prof You’s research interests are in computer animation, geometric modelling, computer graphics, and differential equations and mechanics related to industrial applications, including character modelling and animation, surface blending, solid blending, ordinary and partial differential equation-based geometric modelling and computer animation. He has published over 180 publications with 66 papers published in international journals, secured 33 funding and industrial projects as a principal investigator or co-investigator, and led 20 projects as a principal investigator.

You, L.H., Zhang, J.J. and Comninos, P., 2004. Blending surface generation using a fast and accurate analytical solution of a fourth order PDE with three shape control parameters. The Visual Computer, 20, 199-214.

You, L.H., Wu, H.B. and Sun, R.B., 1998. A series method for calculating the body of dry gas holders under gas pressure. Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 39, 15-24.

You, L.H. and Zhang, J.J., 2011. A unified approach to geometric modeling of curves and surfaces. In: Richard, P. and Braz, J., eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications: GRAPP 2011. Portugal: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication.

You, L.H. and Zhang, J.J., 2000. Free form surface generation using analytical solution to a fourth order partial differential equation. Proceedings of The Fifth World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology. Society for Design and Process Science Press, 14-21.